Bluesky

RealPlayer

Never had Twitter. I am only on Facebook (and here). Leery of engaging in another internet distraction.

ShiroKuro

I resurrected my BlueSky account. We’ll see how it goes.

wtg

A quick guide to the X alternatives.

https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/elon-musk-twitter-bluesky-threads-mastodon-b2648811.html

Piano*Dad

I have been on BlueSky for a little while. It's a lot better than Twitter (X). No bots. No trolling (so far). I got on some "starter packs" so my follower count is moving up nicely among the people I really want to talk to .... reporters, economists, and people who study higher education in general.

wtg

Things you can do with Bluesky.

https://www.theverge.com/24295933/bluesky-social-network-custom-how-to

dolmansaxlil

I had been on twitter since 2006 and deactivated my account last week. Moved over to bsky as other educators in my circles did. Reminds me of old twitter. The starter packs are fantastic for following specific kinds of accounts.

wtg

Some of my favorite Bluesky folks.

https://bsky.app/profile/dhfeldman.bsky.social
https://bsky.app/profile/mcuban.bsky.social

Got anyone you're following?

DeweyLOU

DeweyLOU.bsky.social

wtg

Mark Cuban posted this link. Top stories on Bluesky, updated hourly.

https://theblue.report/

wtg

Bluesky Is Plotting a Total Takeover of the Social Internet

All the lefties fled to Bluesky following Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover. But CEO Jay Graber says the app is for everyone—and could revolutionize how people communicate online.

From Wired:

https://archive.is/5pCK0

ShiroKuro

@wtg Thanks for posting this, I'll give it a read.

I'm a little skeptical because I have never found BlueSky to be as engaging or as relevant to me as Twitter used to be back before it became a total cesspool...

CHAS

@ShiroKuro
Must agree. Bluesky left me wanting to get out of there.

Mik

The death of social media? It seems every platform that becomes widespread becomes a cesspool through scammers, frauds, angry whackos, anonymous posters and obnoxious monetization.

rustyfingers

FWIW I love it. I feel so much better informed than before I joined.

ShiroKuro

@rustyfingers said in Bluesky:

I feel so much better informed than before I joined.

I may need to try to follow more accounts or something...

AdagioM

I’m still trying to adjust my feed in Bluesky. I follow a lot of knitting accounts, and they follow me, but they don’t post. I follow a few news/political accounts, and they post A LOT. So it’s not a very relaxing experience.

I’m on Threads, too. I know, it’s another Meta platform. It’s amusing. But I’m pretty sure views of my stuff is throttled there, much like on FB, as far as knitting goes. I get way more reactions on Bluesky, even though I have fewer followers on Bluesky.

rustyfingers

@ShiroKuro I use the discover tab mostly. I do get more soft porn anime drawings than I really need to see, and for a while I was getting bear pictures (not the hibernating kind).

@AdagioM I do overdo it with the doomscrolling. As choochiefingers says, there's always so much doom to scroll.

I try to post flower pictures and tag them #bloomscrolling

rustyfingers

@wtg https://bsky.app/profile/hcrichardson.bsky.social

AdagioM

I follow HCR via her substack to my email, and also in my FB feed. And on Bluesky, too. I’ll always see her somewhere!

WTF-Beta

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